The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
INDIAN GAMES are feature at some Of the
Pacific coast Agricultural fairs.

INDIAN GAMES are feature at some OF the
Pacific coast agricultural fairs.
AT POINT in deep ravine two miles from
Wellingford, N. Y, ice, it is said forms the
year round.
THE native Christians of Madagascar have
given more than 81 900, 900 for the spread of the
gospel in the past ten years.
TIE Northwestern LuniberDldn estimates that
100 100000 feet of hemlock will be put into
Michigan streams this winter.
THE mulberry tree was cultivated in China
and known by the name of the golden tree 1900
years before the Christian era.
THE first shark seen in the Kennebec river for
years was captured a day or two ago., at Fort
Popham Beach. 1t weighed 800 pounds
SAwpusT has succeeded straw for horse bed
ding in several of the street railway stables in
Boston, and it is said to be about oae-half less
costly.
The wife of DIR. j. B. Jones, of Bolivar, Tenn,
possesses two china plates of a set presented to
Thomas Jefferson when he was Minister to
France.
Two greyhounds accompanying Washington
lady whose purse was stolen from her Joined in
the chase after the thief and succeeded in head
ing him Off
FROM Madison, Wis, the home of Postmaster
General Villas comes a rumor that Mr.. Villas
will not be a candidate for the Vice Presidential
nomination, but is biding his time with the hope
and purpose of succeeding Mr. Cleveland in
1892.
A coLoRED woman of Lansing, Mich has
given birth to child which enters at once upon
the pathway to fame. The doctor says it is
boy, while the mother insists that it is girl.
and il is thought that q convention will have to
be called to settle it.
A CONNECTICUT MAN has invented way to ride
free in bobtail street cars. He walks boldly to
the fare box, rattles a nickel, so that it sounds
as if he had deposited it, and then sits down
and tries to look honest. The drivers i'll his sec
ton are beginning to watch him closely.
A LIVELY carrying trade has been built up
along the Pacific coast by the Klamath Indians.
With their large canoes, hewn out of the solid
| trunks of huge trees, they make trips along the
| coast as far as Crescent City. They carry dairy
and farm produce for the settlers and return
| with loads of groceries and other supplies.
EARLY Sunday morning all traffic on the east
ern end of the New York division of the Penn
| sylvania railroad was stopped to allow the re-
moval of the Methodist church at Linden, N. j.,
| across the tracks of the railroad After mid
| night the telegraph wires were cut to make
| free passage for the steeple. 1t required seven
hours to move the church.
| A COW pastured in the declivitous precincts of
Dubuque, lost her balance few days ago, and
| bowled down the almost perpendicular bluff and
| through the roof of humble residence at the
bottom The family proceeded to pick the
shingles out of the cradle and wipe the milk
| spatters from the furniture, and the cow sadly
| and slowly reaScended the hill.
THE ladies of Terre Haute, feeling indignant
over the condition of the village cemetery, as
sembled the other day and arming themselves
with axes, sickles, and similar weapons repaired
| thither and commenced cutting out the thistles
and weeds that had been left to ripen there.
The sexton felt so scandalized that he agreed to
| finish the job if they would leave.
GRANT HUSTON leaned out of the door of a
mail car to salute his sweetheart as the train
was rapidly passing Strawns, six miles west of
| Cambridge City, Ind, when the crane used to
| hold the mail pouch struck him, knocking
two-inch hole in his skull. He is in an uncon-
scious condition and will die Miss Nora Peed,
| the lady to whom he was to have been married
in a few days, is nursing him.
SOME wicked young Boston men met in their
club house the other evening to play poker, and
one of their number suggested that the winnings
| be given to a man who had recently been arrest
ed in the North End for stealing cabbage for his
starving family. This was agreed to- and at the
| close of the game the winners took carriage,
| hunted up the cabbage thief's home, and made
| his family happy with very respectable sum of
| money.
| AN American sailing vessel that left Yoke
hama in May last shipped twelve Japanes sail
| ors as part of her crew. Near Hawaii the mas
| ter in fit of rage, shot one of these men
| Hidaka Kikunatsu-and afterward beat the
poor fellow with a stick until he died. The body
| was then flung into the sea, and now the trag
| edy has been disclosed by the return to Yoko-
| hama of four of the Japanese sailors who wit
messed the murder.
| THE tower, which is being erected by the Rus
slams on the highest point of the Mount of Olives
| is already several stories high, and but one more
is to be added 1t is to be so high that both the
Mediterranean and Dead Sea may be seen from
| A of in
the tower In digging the foundation seven
Christian graves were found together, with an
inscription in Greek in which the word 'Stepha-
| NUS could be deciphered
IT has been decided by the Circuit court for
the county of Lenawee, Michigan, that it is law
full to hug girl if the girl is willing. A certain
school-teacher brought suit for damages
against couple of fellows because he heard
| they reported that he had his arm around girl.
| The court decided that a report of that kind did
a man no harm. that if he really did hug the girl
| he committed no offense and that he had no
right to kick if the lady didn't
THE live stock sanitary commission of Arizona
assumes entire responsibility for the quarantine
against Mexico, and declares that Gov Zulick
had nothing to do with it except to officially
| proclaim it when declared by the commissioners
| as required by law The reason of proclaiming
Mexico is asserted to be the fact that neither
| Mexico nor the State of Sonora has quarantined
| against infected stock from other places Cattle
in transit may pass through Arizona, but they
| will not be allowed to go outside the cars and
| the railroad stock yards.
| A PARIS woRKINGMAN named Barthes asked
his wife to look down well, and as she did so
pushed her in. When she came to the surface
| and screamed for help he let down the bucket
| and she clinging to it, drew her up, making her
| think he was going to save her. When nearly
| to the top he let her drop again into the we'll
and, as she still refused to die he flung large
stones on her. The neighbors interfered and
one of them put ladder down and brought the
woman, still alive, up on it, the husband, mean
| time, doing everything in his power to hinder
penal servitude.
WIDOW in Burlington, Ia. whose husband
committed suicide, was charged by the family
of her husband with being the cause of the
suicide. The widow, to vindicate herself had a
| Spiritualistic seance, where departed spirits
were called to testify in the case, at which the
| father of the suicide was present. The husband
| who had Suicided was called to the stand and
testified that there were no unpleasant relations
between himself and wife; that she had been a
| good wife TO him. He further said he did not
| commit suicide. He had gone to the stable to
| clean his revolver, and, as he stood in the door
way, the wind suddenly blew the door against
his arm, causing the pistol to be discharged.
thus ending his earthly existence. The affair
exctes not little comment in Burlington.
THE curious fact is noted that months and
seasons have their influence upon the sum total
Of incendiarism AS suicides are more frequent